Iliad scholars
Cards (37)
- Helen is objectified
- Andromache represents the negative effects war has on women
- Andromache demonstrates the negative effects war has on women's lives
- women do matter
- Helen is objectified
- little regard for women
- Helen wants a husband like hector
- hectors death symbolises the fall of a city
- poem of death
- the gods work to extremes
- achilles shows anger similar to Apollo
- we don't see achilles' wrath in book 24
- the gods are frivolous and aimless
- hector is gentle and kind
- the only good thing about achilles' character is his ability to fight
- the war is caused by the gods
- the sound of battle can always be heard in the background
- the Iliad is saturated in blood
- battle scenes are filled with pathos
- achilles has fear for the safety of patroclus
- Patroclus' desire to go too far kills him
- hector is not fighting to defend his brother, but to save his city
- Agamemnon doesn’t care about ethics or protocol, but wants to demonstrate his power
- women do little more than watch and weep
- menis is a vengeful godlike anger achilles has
- avenging patroclus is more important to achilles than his anger against agamemnon
- heroic power can lead to less desirable qualities: excessive anger, cruelty, pride, recklessness
- achilles fights purely to avenge patroclus
- achilles wrath is redirected against hector
- characters are driven by fear of losing kleos
- heroes are hypersensitive to their reputation
- Women are possessions
- their deaths can be moving, even the gods weep
- achilles and priam are united in humanity
- rage and violence are an essential part of achilles character
- the gods are utterly ruthless
- war means glory, war means suffering